Infection (2004 film)
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| Directed by | Masayuki Ochiai |
| Produced by | Takashige Ichise |
| Screenplay by | Masayuki Ochiai |
| Story by | Ryoichi Kimizuka |
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| Music by | Kuniaki Haishima |
| Cinematography | Hatsuaki Masui |
| Edited by | Yoshifumi Fukazawa |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Infection (感染 Kansen?) is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Masayuki Ochiai. The film is about a run-down hospital where a doctor's mistake unwittingly creates horrific consequences for the staff at the hospital. The film was adapted from Ochiai's earlier screenplay from Tales of the Unusual. On its release, the film was part of the six-volume J-Horror Theater series.
On the films release in Japan, it was the second highest gross film at the weekend box office, only being beaten by the film I Robot.
At a hospital, Dr. Akiba refuses to admit a patient with a strange black rash and is alerted to a serious crisis in Room 3 where a burn victim has died, having apparently been given the wrong drug. Akiba, another doctor, and four nurses decide to cover up the cause of death and move the body to an unused room. Akiba then discovers that the patient he refused to admit has been left in the hallway. Doctor Akai decides to study his symptoms: though he is still alive, his body mass is liquefying into green goo. Not knowing how much Akai knows about the events in Room 3, Akiba and the others reluctantly agree to help with the examination but when they return to the patient's room, they find he has vanished and the head nurse has been knocked unconscious.
The doctors find that they are risk of infection when the head nurse begins to bleed green goo from her ears and eyes. The doctors put her on a bed and cover her with plastic in an attempt to limit the infection's spread. Soon after, the mean nurse finds the young nurse drawing blood on herself. Their conversation goes awry when the young nurse lets out a manic laugh and plunges two needles into her body, splattering the nurse with green goo. While speaking with a patient he killed earlier, Uozumi is overcome with guilt and starts crying. Akiba walks in but finds Uozumi alone. His eyes turn white and green goo starts seeping from him. Akiba panics and turns to find a nurse, now infected and covered in green goo, smiling and hanging upside down from the ceiling. After finding the nurse giving her own blood to the dead burn patient and running into the infected head nurse, Akiba flees the room.
Akiba confronts Akai and accuses him of creating and spreading the virus. Akai denies this and explains that the infection is actually spread mentally, infecting the subconscious of its victims. He then urges Akiba to remember what really happened in Room 3 earlier in the night. Dr. Nakazono walks in to find Akiba talking to himself, forcing him to realise that he's been speaking with his reflection. He looks around and sees the corpses of the two nurses who are dead and covered in blood with no green goo in sight, and realizes that the last few hours have been a hallucination. Nakazono calls the police as Akiba recalls the events in Room 3 and realizes that "Akai" was actually the burn patient. The same series of events is shown again but with Akiba as the burn patient and Akai as Akiba, giving the order for the wrong drug, which massacres the entire staff.
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